# Installation notes for Discourse on Bash for Windows

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-notes-for-discourse-on-bash-for-windows/48141
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [August 3, 2016, 3:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/installation-notes-for-discourse-on-bash-for-windows/48141 "2016-08-03T03:10:48Z")
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@bitcrazed @shanselman a few months ago we upgraded Discourse to use: [https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap](https://github.com/Shopify/bootsnap)

This heavily reduced file IO during boot which results in **acceptable** albeit a bit a bit slower boot performance on Windows in WSL.

Locally I see Discourse boot times of

- 2.2 **seconds** on a VMWare Ubuntu VM
- 4.5 **seconds** on the same machine in WSL

Without bootsnap I was seeing **31** second boot times!

This is quite enormous! It means that WSL is an acceptable option for local development of Discourse (and other Rails applications).

Sure it can be faster but given how ubiquitous, integrated and easy to set up it is this is an endorsable option! Also, keep in mind, Rails is embracing bootsnap and will ship with it from the next version onwards!

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